Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-10
DAILY HERALD.
C.,,s.rn,. wine. su the Eass.

c~lsseruim wines I'm the East.
There is nothing more marked and
certain than the constantly increasing
flow of California wines to the Eastern
market, which signifies, OF course,
their increasing consumption, either
in one wav or another. Until very
recently this consumption has very
aeldom come to the surface, so to
sneak: and to those quite familiar
With the volume Of the jobbing busi-
ness in these goods it has often been
: mystery how such q volume
of goods has found its way into
consumption. II was not long ago that
the writer was asked if he had ever
drunk glass of California wine over
. bar in New York, where the bar
tender would admit that it vas Cali
fornia wine that he was serving? And
he was compelled to answer the ques-
6cu in the negative. How many, in
deco, who get around among the re-
tailers of the metropolis could give a
different answer, until possibly within
the past year or two. And yet look at
the figures representing the receipts
Of these wines in New York during
the past seven years, in gallons:
1879, Ry Pacific Mail, 1,375,51s; by rail.
TAI ,95S-2, 1l7,746.
1880 BY Pacific Mail, 1,229.22S; by rail-,
1851. BY Pacific Mail, l,sse,e7o; by rail,
1,272, 1862, ,659, ,456.
1852. BY Pacific Nail, 1,271, Az; by rail,
l,3k2, ,OOO-2,613,472.
1883. By Pacific Mail, 1,146,394 by rail-,
1890, 143-2, ,466, ,531.
1854. BY cific Mail 1,O59,753; by rail,
1855. BY Pacific Mail, 1.117,ss7; by rail,
5000, ,2OO-4, ,11S,1S7.
1856. by Pacific Mail, 696, 1856; by rail, A.
66S, 1875, ,365, $40.
To the initiated, of course, there is
no mystery as to how these millions
of gallons of wine have found their
way through established trade chan
nels to the consumer. While they
have all been sold from first hands as
California wines, there has been but a
small fraction which have maintained
their name and identity even SO far as
to the saloon and the grocery, much
less to the consumer, but they have
evidently given sufficient satisfaction
to create demand which has
risen from about two million gallons
III 1913 u over i've HlllllOu SdliOuo III
1886. And this is saying much for
them. Indeed, the fact that they
have not only held their own but
grown in favor and consumption, even
though put up under French and Ger
man labels, and sold under an alias,
as it were, is proof positive of some
degree of merit and very consider
able degree of stability. But no mat
ter what the methods af selling may
have been, not even the French and
German labels could hardly have Sc
cured an increase in the consumption
of these goods during the past seven
years, and particularly during the past
three years, had not there been some
improvement in their character and
quality. And that there has been
such improvement and that it is still
going on no one of intelligence can
question. In fact, such has been the
improvement that at last California
wines are really. beginning to stand
alone, or rather to stand on their own
merits, and to find their way even to
the consumer under their own names
in lieu of under a foreign alias. This
is certainly hopeful indication, and
it means much, if not everything, for
the future of these goods. Wine and
Spirit Review.